Raspberry Pi was not only designed to help software engineers but it turned out help all sort of hobbyists ranging from IT to Electronics as well. Making a robot was never so easy than before. These magical devices have really made learning the aspects of robotics very easy and quick. And best of all it isn't that much costly to build one (although it still is costly in India!).
So, this time I decided to buy the parts to make an actual robot (quickbot, as it is often called, since it is very quick to make one). And I did:
Although I could have used a transistor to control the motor (I didn't know this while I was buying the driver chip) but I bought a dedicated motor controller chip from Ryanteck: store.ryanteck.uk/collections/robots/products/ryanteck-budget-robotics-kit-for-raspberry-pi?variant=972743015
And finally I bought a wi-fi adapter to control the quickbot via a laptop (or smartphone).
Here is a snapshot showing the raspberry pi controlled by smartphone. I used a VNC client from realvnc : https://www.realvnc.com/products/android/ and I already had installed VNC server in the raspberry pi by following a very simple procedure (a quick google search would tell you that).
Here is an updated version of the above video:
So if you also want to do robotics, you can buy these parts as I did. But if you ask me-- I really don't think I did any hard work on learning this--I rather should have bought transistors, sensors (instead of wasting money on chassis and driver chip) and learnt how to do useful projects with them.
Finally, some words about Wi-Fi -- It really becomes a great project when you can control your device wirelessly, so I do recommend to buy one of these dongles (And the great fact is that you don't need any internet connection to control your device, wifi hotspot created by your smartphone would work just fine).
That's it! For more information visit following websites:
So, this time I decided to buy the parts to make an actual robot (quickbot, as it is often called, since it is very quick to make one). And I did:
And finally I bought a wi-fi adapter to control the quickbot via a laptop (or smartphone).
Here is a snapshot showing the raspberry pi controlled by smartphone. I used a VNC client from realvnc : https://www.realvnc.com/products/android/ and I already had installed VNC server in the raspberry pi by following a very simple procedure (a quick google search would tell you that).
(Android app from RealVNC)
Here is a short video showing the final results (did a poor job in recording, but anyway..)
Here is an updated version of the above video:
So if you also want to do robotics, you can buy these parts as I did. But if you ask me-- I really don't think I did any hard work on learning this--I rather should have bought transistors, sensors (instead of wasting money on chassis and driver chip) and learnt how to do useful projects with them.
Finally, some words about Wi-Fi -- It really becomes a great project when you can control your device wirelessly, so I do recommend to buy one of these dongles (And the great fact is that you don't need any internet connection to control your device, wifi hotspot created by your smartphone would work just fine).
That's it! For more information visit following websites:
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